Feeling homesick is something a lot of new immigrants experience. People often seek out the familiar in the foreign -- like with food. But while taste can build a bridge, sometimes people need more than flavor to connect to home. Mills College reporter Jessica Toyota brings us the story of Denize Wells. In America, she found love, but to find a child, she returned to her native Brazil.
I gained a lot of weight, was depressed, I would realized that my period had come and if I was not pregnant I would cry. I tried to stay away from everybody. But I always, always considered adoption anyway. l always said to myself, "Even if I have a biological child I will end up adopting one, and I want to adopt one from Brazil."
This piece is part of a series of stories, "Waking up to the American Dream," created by student journalists at Mills College in Oakland.